At this year’s EVE Fanfest (still ongoing) CCP have taken to the stage to give updates on the development of World of Darkness, their entirely player-driven MMO based on the vampire RPG of the same name.

The games’ development team is now clocking in at 70 people, and they’ve working on everything from web-based tools to improved shaders and clothing systems. Their on-stage presenter also confirmed that they were working on crafting, but claimed that direct item creation probably won’t be present.

“You’re a powerful, immortal lord of the night,” he joked. “You don’t want to stitch a shirt.”

Source: Massively

I’m quite looking forward to CCP’s upcoming World of Darkness MMO, and if it’s as actually dark as it suggest, then it should be great. And apparently CCP are playing it, right now, in the office! Those dastards. Why aren’t they sharing their incomplete, work-in-progress MMO with the world?

“[Development] is going on very nicely, we’re playing it internally at CCP,” said CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson to Eurogamer. “It’s actually a problem that some of our employees are losing themselves already in the World of Darkness as we go through the playtests.”

“And we’ll be showing a tiny piece of that also at Fanfest. So that is all I have to say about that at this time.”

Dastards.

Source: Eurogamer

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